[f. ANTIQUE a. + -NESS.] The quality of being antique; antiquity of style.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. 144. The modern Antiquenesse of his Apparell.
1693. Addison, Ess. Virg. Georgics, Wks. 1721, I. 255 (J.). We may still discover something venerable in the antickness of the work.
1850. Leitch, Müller’s Anc. Art, § 96. A female figure … in which grace is remarkably combined with antiqueness.
